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Cyprian
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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.
[3005] [Compare vol. iii. p. 693.]
[3006] Scil.: “of the cross.” [Fanciful in logic, but our author may be indulged in his rhetoric. It was suited to the times.]
[3007] [i.e., of the stocks.]
[3008] [As of convict criminals. An honourable tonsure.]
[3010] [This is very strong language, and absolutely disproves transubstantiation and “the eucharistic God” of Dufresne, Med., iii.]
[3017] [No one can read these obiter dicta of our author without assurance that the martyrs were a numerous army, beyond what is generally allowed. “A noble army, men and boys” (Heber).]
[3019] [See next letter. I cannot conceive of any Christian as not profoundly touched and edified by this eloquent and scriptural letter of a martyr to martyrs in a period of fiery trial. They truly believed what is written, “to die is gain.” Phil. i. 21.]
Epistle LXXVII. The Reply of Nemesianus, Dativus, Felix, and Victor, to Cyprian.
[3020] Oxford ed.: Ep. lxxvii. a.d. 257.
[3021] This is confirmed in Epistle lxxix., where mention is made of one mine in particular.
[3022] Otherwise, “the sinews of the common enemy cut in two, his carcase was trodden under foot.” [Rom. xvi. 20.]
[3023] [A graphic idea of mine-tortures is here afforded.]
Epistle LXXVIII. The Reply to the Same of Lucius and the Rest of the Martyrs.
[3024] Oxford ed.: Ep. lxxviii. a.d. 257.
[3025] [These acolytes were of Greek name, but of Western usage only. They were a sort of candidates for Orders; and our Moravian brethren retain this ministry and the name, to this day.]
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